Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. Any personal information you provide to us will be dealt with in accordance with this privacy policy. In the UK, we operate and are registered in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.

All of the PA Group of companies* is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy explains our data processing practices and your options regarding the ways in which your personal data is used. If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to our processing, please click here to contact us or write to: The Data Protection Officer, Legal Department, The Press Association Limited, 292 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1AE.

Whenever you supply personal information to any PA Group company, we are obliged to deal with that information in a lawful way in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

We may request information from you in order to process your transaction, fulfil your order or provide you with the services and products you expect. This information may include, but is not limited to, details such as your name, your address, your e-mail address, telephone number and bank account details. If you subscribe to any PA Group company service or product, we will use your personal information to provide you with the service or product you select (e.g. sending you password reminders or notices about the relevant service or product being suspended for emergency or routine maintenance). In addition, we may collect information from you, for example, in order to reply to any enquiry you make of any PA Group company. We may use the information you provide for our own internal statistical purposes.

We will not disclose any personal information you provide to us to any third party organisation outside the PA Group of companies, unless we need to do so to provide you with the products or services you select or we are obliged or permitted by law to disclose it.

Whenever you submit personal information to any PA Group company, you may opt out of receiving any further promotional material from the PA Group of companies. If you wish to opt out of receiving any promotional material from any PA Group company, please contact the PA Group company personnel to whom you submitted your personal information or send us an e-mail. However, if you do choose to have promotional material sent to you, you will be given the option to "unsubscribe" from receiving any further information about that product or service from us.

If you wish to correct or update any of the personal details we hold about you, please contact your usual PA Group company contact as soon as possible or write to us at: The Data Protection Officer, Legal Department, The Press Association Limited, 292 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1AE.

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information that we hold about you and have any inaccuracies corrected. Please address requests to: The Data Protection Officer, Legal Department, The Press Association Limited, 292 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1AE.

Web Sites

When you visit any PA Group company web site, we may use a "cookie". Cookies are text files that identify your computer to our server. Our web sites only serve one kind of cookie that only endures for the duration of your session on one of our web sites and it gathers no information other than what is required to maintain your session on our web servers.

PA Group company web sites may contain links to other web sites which are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Please note that, if you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from ours.

*The PA Group of companies consists of PA Group Limited (company number 4197) and any other company which is controlled by, or 50% or more owned by, PA Group Limited or any of its wholly owned subsidiaries (such as The Press Association Limited) from time to time.